TY - GEN
T1 - Taking back control of social media feeds with take back control
AU - Salminen, Joni
AU - Corporan, Juan
AU - Jung, Soon Gyo
AU - Jansen, Bernard J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/8/25
Y1 - 2021/8/25
N2 - Controlling the quality of social media feeds poses an issue for many users. Platforms such as Twitter give users some options to influence their feeds. Still, the selection of content predominantly relies on implicit rather than explicit user actions, as manual options for "cleaning the feed"are often cumbersome and difficult to use for most users. Here, we present Take Back Control, a web browser extension that gives users control to hide undesirable content from their social media feeds. The extension combines JavaScript (for hiding the content) and machine learning (for deciding what content to hide). Our current demonstration includes three filter types: Toxic, Political, and Negative content, with a possibility to add more filters, all of this with the overarching aim of helping end users control the information visible in their social media feeds.
AB - Controlling the quality of social media feeds poses an issue for many users. Platforms such as Twitter give users some options to influence their feeds. Still, the selection of content predominantly relies on implicit rather than explicit user actions, as manual options for "cleaning the feed"are often cumbersome and difficult to use for most users. Here, we present Take Back Control, a web browser extension that gives users control to hide undesirable content from their social media feeds. The extension combines JavaScript (for hiding the content) and machine learning (for deciding what content to hide). Our current demonstration includes three filter types: Toxic, Political, and Negative content, with a possibility to add more filters, all of this with the overarching aim of helping end users control the information visible in their social media feeds.
KW - Browser Extension
KW - Feeds
KW - Social Media
KW - User Control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116705142&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/INISTA52262.2021.9548614
DO - 10.1109/INISTA52262.2021.9548614
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85116705142
T3 - 2021 International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, INISTA 2021 - Proceedings
BT - 2021 International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, INISTA 2021 - Proceedings
A2 - Kilimci, Zeynep Hilal
A2 - Yildirim, Tulay
A2 - Piuri, Vincenzo
A2 - Czarnowski, Ireneusz
A2 - Camacho, David
A2 - Manolopoulos, Yannis
A2 - Solak, Serdar
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, INISTA 2021
Y2 - 25 August 2021 through 27 August 2021
ER -